The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-10-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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| The territory Of Dakota has bonded
Indebtedness Of 81 ,O9S,8OO.
William j. McGari gle, the escaped
Chicago boodler, is living with his famil..
six miles from st. Catherine, Ont.
Three blocks in the business portion Q
Marinette, Wis, were destroyed by an in
cendiary fire Wednesday; loss $7,00O,0O0
A deposit Of iron ore has lately beer
discovered on farm adjacent to St
Cloud, Mimi, and near the site Of the new
second state prison.
A lockout, involving 5000 hands, wa
inaugurated Wednesday morning by th'
members Of the Boot and Shoe Manufac
turers' ASSOCIATION Of Philadelphia.
Two hundred and eighty Mormon con
verts landed at Castle Garden Tuesda,
from the steamship Novira. They came
from Liverpool and are bound for Sal
Lake City.
The Union coal company Of Shamokin
Pa, has issued orders to their foremen t.
remove all persons working in their mines
who are unable to speak and understand
the English language.
By the wrecking Of Northern Pacific
stock train at Fridley, Minnesota, las
Sunday, many cattle we're killed and ar
engineer and fireman and two stockmer
were seriously injured.
The banking house Of NJ. E. Post & Co, .,o
Cheyenne, Wyoming, has closed its doors
The assets, including the bank at Wes
Cliff, Colorado, and the personal effect:
Of NJ. E. Post, are $9O3,579, with liabili
ties Of $494,30O.
A four-story schoolhouse in course o1
erection in New York City collapsed or
Monday, burying twenty-one men who
were in the building, Of whom five were
killed outright and ten others more o.
less severely injured.
The report Of the bureau Of statistics OF
the wool product will be issued shortly
1t will estimate the wool clip this year al
$7O,OOO,OOO, and the number Of sheep II
the country at 4O,OO0,OOO, an increase ot
100000 since the last census.
The schooner Herman Banson, from
Grand Banks, Tuesday, reported that or
September 80 she fell in with the French
fishing sloop St. Pierre, waterlogged. Ter
drowned men were found In the cabin
The weather being very rough, the bodies
were not recovered.
Gen. BENZ. F. Butler has been definitely
retained as counsel for the condemned
Chicago anarchists, and appeared before
the supreme court in their behalf yester.
day. As leading attorney, Ben Butler
will receive fee of 81, 500 and the mod.
est consideration Of $3.50 per day.
The secretary Of interior has requested
the attorney general to institute proceed
ings against Jesse Lee Hall, agent for the
Commanche and Wichita Indians in the
Indian Territory, upon a charge Of NAL
feasance in office. 1t is stated that Halls
defalcation will be from 100000 to $50,
900.
Governor Church, OF Dakota, in his an
nual message to the secretary Of the inte
rior, estimates the corn crop of that terri
tory at 27,O0O,OOO bushels. and the whea
crop at 6O,OOO,0OO bushels, or about one
seventh of the entire wheat crop of tht
United States. The assessed valuation O
the territory for 1887 is S157,000,00O.
The Matador Land and Cattle company
incorporated in Scotland with a capita
of 100000, has been refused charter
to 60 business in Texas. Attorney Gen
eral Hogg decides that to grant charter
would be clearly repugnant to public in
terests, and declares that domestic cor
poration could not secure charter fol
the purpose Of purchasing and owning rea
estate in Texas, when such is their MAR
purpose.
A special from Olympia gives sum
mary Of the census of Washington terri
tory, taken this year, showing total pop
ulation of IA, 100, Of whom 137, 800 art
whites, 2,575 Chinese, 3,2G8 Indian half
breeds, and the remainder mulattoes ane
and Kanakas. The male citizens ovel
twenty -one number 43,636. The increase
in population in two years has been 1S,
155. The Chinese population has de
creased In two years 701.
At Memphis last Saturday, Presiden
Cleveland was welcomed by an address
delivered by Judge H. ]. Elicit. Ellet
stood in the hot sun for some time will
his hat off. and was SO affected by th,
heat that he died five minutes after th'
president left the reviewing stand. Th
fact was kept from the president and he wa
unaware Of the sad event until he read j
in the papers. Elicit was man OF hig'
local repute in Memphis.